The Uganda Police in partnership with Blue Global Services from United Kingdom and HUAWEI have for the past eight days been training 45 senior officers on how to use CCTV. The training that has been ongoing at the police headquarters in Naguru ended on Tuesday.

The Deputy Director in charge of the Human Resource Development Felix Ndyomugyenyi told the press that the course was timely and befitting for officers who are going to supervise the juniors who will operate the CCTV cameras across the whole country.

Police started installing CCTV cameras in Kampala following a directive from the President of Uganda.

The cameras and the NVRs (network video recorders), which were probably purchased from reputed, local CCTV Camera Kit Suppliers, ​were installed to curb crime.

“Investors cannot come where there is insecurity, so make maximum use of cameras to fight crime in your area, so that investors can come and invest in Uganda,” Ndyomugenyi said.

The 8 day’s course covered topics such as; concepts of operations, integrated command and control, critical incident management, communication and management contingency plans among others.

Participants varied from different departments of police.